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I say this as someone who has used Unix, MacOS and Linux for most of his long life: not being able to write to /bin and other system directories is a feature an
by doctor_eval 3y ago
I say this as someone who has used Unix, MacOS and Linux for most of his long life: not being able to write to /bin and other system directories is a feature and I really don’t understand how anybody in 2023 could see it otherwise.
Freedom does not just imply the ability to do the things you want, but also the ability to avoid the things you don’t.
- pasc1878 3y agoWhy 2023 writing to /bin was always a bad idea in 1994 when I first used Unix and would have been so even earlier.
- slonopotamus 3y agoYou can just mount it readonly.
- pasc1878 3y agoYes which as I have said done since the early 1990s
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